Comment 7 for bug 1854607

Hi Peter,

It looks like this is another Python3 compatibility issue in
python-fastimport. I'll see if I can push a fix for it this evening.

Jelmer

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 02:47:46PM -0000, Peter J. Mello wrote:
> First, thanks for helping me straighten out this issue. I'm working from
> a local clone of the xtables-addons git repo (git://git.code.sf.net/p
> /xtables-addons/xtables-addons). Originally I was trying to pipe the
> output of git fast-export [flags] to brz fast-import -, but I had
> absolutely no success with any of a multitude of permutations for the
> flags on both sides. Everything I've reported in this thread has been
> from attempts at the method tacitly suggested in the brz documentation,
> that of working from the git output in the form of a file. I created
> said file with the following command:
>
> git fast-export --tag-of-filtered-object=rewrite --signed-tags=strip
> --all >debian.fi
>
> I'm not all that familiar with the format specification for fast-export,
> but inspecting the contents of the file created by the above command
> shows an orderly arrangement of information that I have no reason to be
> suspicious of. I then attempted to process the debian.fi file with brz
> after moving into the folder I wanted the Bazaar repository to reside in
> with this command:
>
> brz fast-import /path/to/debian.fi
>
> I'm unaware of how one would go about "disabling verbose mode" on either
> the git or brz invocations; I was under the impression that verbose mode
> for both was an opt-in condition, not opt-out. I'll gladly test anything
> you might suggest, though.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> ** Attachment added: "git fast-export output"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/brz/+bug/1854607/+attachment/5309541/+files/debian.fi
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - [fastimport 3.0.2] AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '_transport'
> + [fastimport 3.0.2] TypeError: startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str
>
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> [fastimport 3.0.2] TypeError: startswith first arg must be bytes or a
> tuple of bytes, not str
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